Catching up after a business trip and a Disney Trip. I tried to keep up while gone but the above mentioned pop ups made me want to toss my phone against a wall. I loved seeing all the race photos!
QOTD: How the running weather in your part of the world these days? Cold, hot, perfect?
Up until last week it was great, 45ish in the AM, 60 at lunch, I wanted to run all the miles. This week it is rather stormy, hot and humid. Having just gotten back from FL I am telling myself I am more adjusted to the current forecast than I think I am. I got my aftershokz delivered yesterday so I am hoping to figure out how to pair them in the next hour and use that as motivation to run between storm clouds.
QOTD: How do you balance running and real life (job, family, relationships, financial, and other things)?.
Similar to the above, I think I am doing worse job at this than those around me. When in the office (this is becoming more rare), I can run on my lunch hour. Most of the people I work with know I will not be attending their meetings until 1:10pm or will be coming sweating and in running gear. As there is zero chance of running after work, my other option is early, but as work has ramped up with people in different time zones I am getting to bed later and this snowballs to bad mornings. Weekends have been consumed by kids activities (seriously thought this would not happen until they were in at least middle school), so I can pull off about 1.5 hours on Saturday AM. If I am not done before activities begin it is simply not going to happen. Overall, I end up perpetually undertrained for races but I am not willing to miss playing with my kids after work/school, attending their sporting events, or cooking real food to make more running time. I am willing to let the lawn look terrible, and never get around to putting laundry away. I cannot do it all, and never have been able to do so, I think this would be the case with or without kids. Previously it would have been working 80 hour weeks, or going out to hear local bands into the wee hours, or how I lived somewhere unsafe to run most of the time. There is always a reason.
The biggest thing I end up sacrificing for running is sleep - the alarm goes off at least half an hour early on any weekday that I'm running, and early races aren't just a thing in Orlando.
I would be fine with a 6:30 start! My next half does not start until 8:30. I will have plenty of time for breakfast?
QOTD: So perhaps not running related question today... What is the longest sporting event you have watched either live or TV?
3 extra innings of baseball were watched in person, I cannot remember the date or opponent.
Most memorable to me was June 8, 2002 as I was camping with friends and we drove into a small bar to watch the Wings defeat Carolina in the third OT. The kind folk in Great Bend, ON kept pouring well after closing time so we could watch the end of the game.